minuscule

Example Sentences

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“Considering he’d revealed a diagnosis of terminal cancer when last interviewed in 2018, the likelihood that he still lived seemed minuscule.”

From New York Times

The massive reservoir — the largest in Southern California — was considerably drained during the state’s driest three years on record, with nearly half of the lake’s supply used to bolster minuscule allocations from state water providers.

From Los Angeles Times

“If we cannot accommodate them in this minuscule percentage of their former range, what does that say about us as a species?”

From Seattle Times

But in 2010 a new, even more precise electric charge technique suggested the proton’s radius was some 4 percent smaller still—a seemingly minuscule discrepancy that nonetheless deviated immensely from theoretical expectations.

From Scientific American

But when deflecting criticism, "woke" is minuscule, covering almost no books at all.

From Salon